Process
Architecture is at its core, the design and creation of shelter. A simple safe and secure place to sleep and keep belongings is critical to anyone forced to live on the streets. The homeless shelter studio’s goal is to design a safe place for someone to take the first step toward getting things back in order and on a path to the life they want to lead. This project has the ability to help homeless individuals feel ‘human’ again and regain their dignity. This studio aims at designing the affordable, portable, discreet, compact and efficient shelter for homeless, using emergent technologies. It will create a platform to explore the potentials embedded in emergent technologies and material behavior that can serve better our design and society. This shelter should be designed in a way that not only provides the safe place for homeless and accommodates their basic needs, but it can also make an environment to play, and most importantly it can function as a business incubator or pop-up shop. Giving a homeless person the ability to become financially independent can lead to their recovery. This studio aims at promoting the learning of the new methods of design grounded in digital fabrication to enhance students’ perception of algorithms, design computation, mechanism, spatial quality, behavior, and human factor.